What I’m doing there – Free Gaza Flotilla – question and motion  

In one of my first opportunities to ask a question in Parliament, I asked Foreign Secretary William Hague whether the UK Government would put real action behind its words of holding Israel to account for allowing its troops to fire on the Free Gaza flotilla. As you probably know, this was a convoy of ships carrying volunteers and essential medical supplies to Gaza. Several people were killed or wounded. I asked Hague whether he would back an urgent inquiry into the incident and whether he would consider proposing to his European Union foreign minister counterparts the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement - a political and trade cooperation agreement between the EU and Israel. There's a human rights clause within that agreement which expressly allows the EU to suspend cooperation in the event of human rights abuses taking place. So, I asked, would...